Proverbs 27:10
Don't give up on your friends or your family's friends. Don't go to a relative's house when you've got trouble. A friend nearby is more useful than a relative far away.
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In Context
9Perfume and scented oils make you feel happy, but good advice from a friend is even better.
11My son, make me happy by being wise, so I can respond to anyone who criticizes me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:28All my grandfather's family could only expect death from Your Majesty, but you included me, your servant, among those who eat at your table. So what right do I have to ask the king for anything more?”
1 Kings 12:6King Rehoboam asked for advice from the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive. “How do you advise me to reply to these people about this?” he asked.
2 Chronicles 10:8But Rehoboam dismissed the advice of the elders. He instead asked advice from the young men he had grown up with, those close to him.
Job 6:21Now you are no help, just like that —you see my trouble and you're afraid.
Proverbs 18:24Some friends give up on you, but there's a friend who stays closer to you than a brother.
Isaiah 41:8But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, the ones I have chosen, descendants of my friend Abraham,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:10-11
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. 10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. Here is, 1. A charge given to be faithful and constant to our friends, our old friends, to keep up an intimacy with them, and to be ready to do them all the offices that lie in our power. It is good to have a friend, a bosom-friend,… Read the whole commentary →